Caruso: “I've always depended on the blindness of strangers”

Tim Arone is on his way.  Ralph Caruso Isn't.

In the Republican Primary for Town Council Tim pulled in 284 votes.

The second nomination went to Lyn Prestia with 253 votes.

Doc Cooper finished out of the running with 220 votes.

This puts a major crimp in Ralph Caruso's plan to take over a majority of the Town Board.

Now he's got to hope that Cooper, still running on the Woodbury Perversion line, can win, despite having been rejected by a large number of Republicans.  

But the cherry on top was Caruso getting kicked off the Republican Committee.

The Republicans of Ralph's own district, the people who know him best, voted to replace him with Arone and Queenan.

Didn't Caruso learn the lesson from last year's election?

The only way he can win is if he runs unopposed.

Ralph had hedged his bets by running no one in District 9,  so now he can have Don Siebold appoint him to a vacant seat.

Now, Ralph has to tell one of the current Committee members to take a hike so Don can appoint Ralph to that seat.

That's got to be embarrassing. 

"Hey Donny, I got locked out, lemme in!"

But here's what you have to keep in mind.

Taking over the Town Board would have been nice for Ralph, but the real prize is the Village Board.

And now he's seen that people who know who he is and what he's doing don't want to vote for him and his puppets.

So he is going to have to rely on those Woodbury voters who have no idea who he is and what he does.

People who have no idea that Ralph's number one puppet in the November election is Tommy Burke, who is on the Democratic line.

Our job will be to convince those voters to take the time and make the effort to learn what's going on.

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